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More VMware - winning friends and influencing people, like usual.

I blame Broadcom. They behave like an aged care home for software, who actively engages in financial abuse.

The bought it to squeeze it dry in its last few years. It’s one of their main business models.

Buy declining companies with good customer bases, cut spending and raise prices.

Avago's business model, not the original Broadcom's

True. I’m not sure which “faction” runs the company now, but I’d guess it’s not the engineering company.